1. Preceding and preparing for something
   "preparatory steps"
   - preparative, propaedeutic

See also: preceding, prepare

• tall meadow grass
• tall oat grass
• tall oil
• tall order
• tall poppy
• tall story
• tall sunflower
• tall tale
• tall white violet
• tall yellow-eye
• tall-growing
• tall-stalked
• tallage
• Tallahassee
• Tallapoosa
• Tallapoosa River
• tallboy
• Tallchief
• Talleyrand
• tallgrass
• tallier
• Tallin
• Tallinn
• tallis
• tallish